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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12
A KEG OF NAILS.

A few days ago / was reading the
life Of good young missionary named
Henry Lyman. He went to Sumatra,
and was killed by savages. He tells
US something in his jourpal which l
think is very curious. 1t is about
liquor-drinking. Drunkenness is per.
haps more common, fatal, and terrible
in Sumatra than anywhere else in the
world, and that is saying great deal.
In Sumatra they make very strong
wines and whiskey, aud under the hot
tropic sun they prove most rapid poi.
sons. Such deadly effects follow in.
toxication in Sumatra that people say
when man takes a glass of liquor he
drives a nail into his own coffin SO
general is this idea that they do not
call wine, and whiskey, aud brandy,
as we do, by specific names, but call
them all nails, horrible coffin. nails.
Then they distinguish between them
as to color, and alcohol is the "white
nail"; brandy is the "red nail" wine
according to hue, is the "pale," the
pink" the golden" and the "red'
nail. When the topper wants his dram
be asks for a nail "a red or a white
nail. Strange, IS it not, that a mat
can deliberately swallow this poison
the very name of which tells that hi
coffin is making ready for him, an,
that he is helping hourly to prepar
it, and that presently he shall dro
out Of this life into the terrible eteI
nifty of the drunkard
When poor condemned men ride
their execution seated on their crffin
people say "dreadfulw But no
much more dreadful for a man delil
eiately to doom himself to a painful
hopeless, ChIistless death, and then {
Oh, morning, noon, and night, drivir
nails into his coffin And | think th
> awful name of mails" suits here jus
= as we'll as in Sumatra. 1t takes mo
5 nails here to make the eoffin-thaI
e all the difference. All these drinks
. wine, brandy, whisky, rum, gin, al
u so on, hurry the drnker on to deaf
e The drinking people say, "Oh the
IS things don't stay in the body; not
d ing passes out of the flesh and bio
+ sooner than stimulants of this sort
e Very true; but pray, don't the efet
y remain? And if the poison don't st
. . and pile up of itself, its effects q
e cumulative; they pile up on each OF
er until the man dies Of them. q
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

ADDITIONAL TRAIN -- Leaves Kinzna
ll:O5am, Warren l1;50pm, Irvineton LAS
pm, Tidiouto 3:l5pm, Tionesta 5:O5pm, ar
rives oil City 6:i5pm.
ADDIrIoNAL TRAIN-Leavcs oil City
600 am. Olcopolis $40 am, Eagle Rock
6;55am, President 7:02am, 1ionesta 7:52aln
Hickory S:loam. .Trunkeyville 0:00am, It'd
quito p:5Oam, Thompson ll:0o, arrives
lrvineton ll:30am, Warren l2;50pm, Kin
qua 2:05pm, Sugar Run 2;20, Corydon 800,
Ouoville 3:l5, Wolf Run $50, Quaker
Bridge $40, Red House i:l0, Salamanca
5:02, South Carrollton $50, South Wanda
liza 5:lS, Allegheny 6:lS, arrives Olean
6:3Opm.
Trains run on Eastern Time.
TRAINS leaving Pittsburgh 9.00am, ar
riving Pittsburgh 7;25pm, are Solid Trains
between Buffalo and Pittsburgh.
TRAINS leaving Pittsburgh s:50pm. ar
irving Pittsburgh 7;3ham, are Solid Trains
with Pullman's Sleeping Cars between
Buffalo and Pittsburgh.
ES~Tickets sold and baggage checked
To all principal points.
Get time tables giving full informatio
from Company's Agents.
GEO. :. GATCHELL, Gen1 Supt,
j. \. FELLOWS,
Gen1 Pass'r am Ticket Agent.
No. 81 Exchange St., Buffalo, n. Y.
j. l.. CRAIG, Agent, Tionesta, Pa.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

THE Pennsylvania Democratic coon
trap is set to catch the coon going and
coming, aud the Democratic editors
are watching with glistening eyes to
see just what the coon is going to do.
The situation is about this: If Gov
ernor Beaver calls an entra session Of
the Legislature the Democratic editors
will fall on him and rend the party he
represents for indulging iu the exlrav.
agance Of an extra session. If Gov.
ernor Beaver does not call an extra
session the Democracy will jump on
him with both feet and endeavor to
pulverize the Republican party for
not doing what they assert great
many people want done. But while
the Democracy are kept in this de-
lightful state Of uncertainty-hangiDg
by the eyelids as il were-the Repub.
lican party is cheerfully getting in its
work on the large and assorted collec.
tion of rascalities that the Democracy
has been guilty of in past years, and
laughing gaily at the funny predica'
mept of the coou.trsp watchers, who
are hunting dry hole for an ISSUE
When Governor Beaver decides to act
he will act for the best interests Of the
people, and he will be that hard heart
ed that he will not even consult tn,
Democracy as to what be shall do
nor will be even get near the trap t
be caught going or coming. 1t il
hard on Chairman Dallas Sanders, a
a newly. fedged leader of Democracy
but Mr.. Sanders is cropping about 70
an issue has blundered, and the resul
will be that the Republicans of Penn
sylvania will nail bis hide to the fenc,
10 November. Harrisburg Telegraph
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12
Proclamation of General
Election.

Whereas, in and by an act of the General
Assembly of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, entitled An Act to regulate the
Elections of the Commonwealth passed
the 2d day of July, A. D., 1869, it is made
the duty of the Sheriff of every county
within this Commonwealth to give public
notice of the General Elections, and in
such to enumerate:
lst. The officers to be elected.
I'd. Designate the place at which lhe
election is to he held.
L, LEONARD AGNEW, High Sheriff
of the county of Forest, do hereby make
known and give this public notice to the
electors of the county of Forest, that a
General Election will be held in said coun-
ty on
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

THE gentleman in charge Of the
cars in which President Cleveland is
travelling is Mr.. w. S. Baldwin, for
some time manager of the wells that
we're put down on the Woods heirs
tract in Tionesta township, and late
general passenger agent of the B., N.
Y. d =. Railroad.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

THE plan of campaign as mapped
out by Chairman Sanders is to print
an array of figures that are all wrong,
call them facts, and abuse the Repub-
lican party. Mr.. Sanders ought to
get up something original. His plan
has a rich, chestnutty favor that
everybody recognizes instantly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

of the stomach burned out like an old
stove lining; arteries of the brain all
swelled brain cells open like little
doors with the keys lost, ADD won't
stay shut any more; brain veins
crowded, and strained, and out of or
der; blood congested 10 clots in brain
and lungs-these aud thousand moie
troubles follow the driving of coffin
nails over the rumseller's bar. And
where will the drunkard be when the
coffin is finished and he lies in it?
Certainly not in the beautiful king
dom of God"
Think Of it, children, when you
pass the places where the kegs, and
barrels, aud bottles are displayed.
What are they full OFF Nails, nails,
nails, coffin nails, every one. In SUI
matra they have heard of the Ameri'
can temperance societies and the in
flueuce of these societies is felt; some
of the leading people are trying TEN.
perance movement for themselves.
Thus you see the effects Of good ex'
ample our example reaches to Suma'
ira, and stops some Of those unhappy
ones who are daily driving nails into
their own cotius Mrs j. McNai'
Wright.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

THE President is Swinging around
the circle" in elegant style, and re-
ceiving such ovations on his route as
becomes the Office be occupies. We
believe this is what the Democrats
used to call "iunketing trip"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's friends
appear to be scattered all over the
country. When he passed the Joliet,
ILL.,, penitentiary the other day It is
said that the convicts sent up q ring.
ing hurrah. oil City Blizzard.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12
w. G. Il. U. COLUMN
Conducted by the Tionestd Union.

The w. c. II. u. meets the I'd and 4th
Tuesday of each month, at 3 p. IN.
President-Mrs. Eli Holeman.
Vice Presidents-Mrs. J. G. Dale, Mrs.
W. ]. Roberts.
Recording ecy-Mrs. l.. A. Howe.
Cor. Sec. & Treas.-Mrs. S. II. Irwin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12
Send for 76-Page
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE
stockholders Meeting.

There will be meeting of the Stock
holders of the Tionesta Gas Company, at
the General Otfice of said Company in
Tionesta Borough, Monday, the 18th day
October, A. ID. 1887, at o'clock L, NJ, OF
said day, for the purpose of Eleeting Of
ficers, and also 10 amend the Bylaws of
tine Company. E. l.. DAVIS,
Oct. 4th, 1887. Secretary
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

Woe unto him that giUeth his neighLor
drink, that plttteSt thy bottle to him, and
mdkeSt him drunken dLSo.-Hab. II, 10.
The wicked worketh deceitful work !:
but to him that oweth righteousness shall
be a sure reward.-Rev. IL, Is.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

A barrel of liquor was once being
carried up a street, when by accident,
it fell to the ground, and the head was
driven in. One of the spectators, see.
ing the liquor was split, said: 10
dear! o dear! what a pity !" ooh
no, said little boy who was looking
on. ut is not pity; the drink will
do better on Gods earth than in Gods
image"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

Cruikshank, the artist, offered $500
for proof of a violent crime commit.
ted by a total abstaiper, and the
money remains unclaimed to this day,
A temperance society in England of.
fers large reward for proof of siu.
gle instance where property accumu.
lated by liquor selling has descended
to the third generation.-Er.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

REMEMBER that votes count, and
that every vote not pOlled is in the
interest Of the opposition.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12
ALLEGHENY VALLEY R. R.

Most direct route to Pittsburgh and the
East. Ouly route landing passengers at
Union Station without delays or transfer.
70" Trains run by Eastern Time.
Time table in effect July 10, 1887.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

A DRI7E Send six cents for postage.
n TntLL and receive free costly box
of goods which will help all, Of either sex
10 more money right away than anything
else in this world. Fortunes await the
workers absolutely sure. At once ad.
dress True 4 Co., Augusta, Maine. Apr'9
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12
Republican Ticket.

N
JUDICIARY.
Judge of the Supreme Court,
HENRY w. WILLIAMS,
Tioga County.
STATE.
State Treasurer,
WILLIAM 3. HART,
Dauphin County.
COUNTY.
Prothonotary, &C.,
CALVIN NJ. ARNER.
Sheriff,
GEORGE w. SAWYER.
Commissioners,
j. ]. PARSONS.
C. +. LEDEBUR.
Auditors,
r. u. GILLESPIE.
f. L. JONES.
Jury Commissioner,
C. ". CHURCH.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

A PRACTICAL joke in the nature o
an acrostic was perpetrated upon th
Chicago Daily Ne,os when that pape
published in its special edition devote
to clarifying the President the follow
ing poem, entitled:
''IN ILLINOIS"
"Here in this land of promise,
Under the glorious sky,
Reaching awide DER shore and tide,
Ruler and bride do thou abide;
And, heart of the West, beat high,
Forgetting the dismal rancor
OF years that should be dead,
Rally we all from cot and hall,
Blessin&-nnr nations head,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

And to your gentle wife,
In prosperous ways God guide your days
Nor count them past till you at last
Enjoy the endless life"
The first letters of the lines, read
downward, read: "HURRA FOR
BLAINE"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

Mr.. BLAINE in his speech at Seba.
60 Lake, August IA, uttered the fol.
lowing thoughts for the workiugmen
of this eoupt-y. Ea sGiI: in any
e-ert Il would be well for the labor
organizations to diligently inquire and
ascertain how the wages Of labor in
the United States can be kept above
the rate of wages in England, Ger.
many aud France on the same articles
Of manufacture without the interven.
tion of protective duties? With the
present cheap modes of interchange
and transportation Of all commodities,
1 inquire of these gentlemen how, un.
der the rules of Free Trade, can wages
IN the United States be kept above
the general standard Of European
wages? / do not stop for the detail Of
argument, | only desire TO lodge the
question iu the minds of The millions
Of American laborers who have il in
their power to maintain Protection OIL
to inaugurate Free Trade, who have
it 10 their power to uph6ld the party
Of Protection or the party Of Free
Trade" Can any laboring 9Pn who
reads this doubt as TO bis duI at th'
coming election.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12

w. H. ANDREWS ESQ, OF the Re.
publican State Committee, was in
town over Friday night last, and met
quite a number of the Republicans Of
this place and vicinity. Mr.. Andrews
is making a tour of the counties of the
northwest for the purpose of familiar
izing himself with the condition of the
party organization. He finds the
ticket gives the best satisfaction wher.
ever he goes, and says there is every
prospect Of success, but that the vote
must be gotten out. That Republi
cans must remember that this is not
an "Off year." but pivotal year." q
forerunner Of 1888. Let the Re7ub'
licans of Forest bestir themselves from
now until election day. Every vote
must be out. We have an excellen,
State and County ticket. One tha
We can all heartily work for and elect
but we must get out the vote.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03

Hamilton Stewart, estate Press" it only
followed the spontaneous suggestion Of
probably every newspaper heart in Texas.
1t takes man like Captain B. B. Pad
dock, who has been there himself, to do
the handsome by editors. Captain Pad
dock was the first president of the Texas
Press Association. He has come down
to building railroads at the rate OF g
mile day.
A number of the citizens of Fort Worth
are somewhat of orators themselves: such
as Mayor Broiles, Mr.. Powell, Thorp
Andrews and B. B. Paddock, and when it
comes to singing few sentences around
glibly, Editor Malone of THE GAZETTE, is
no failure.
Mr.. r. NJ. Johnson's speech was
chaste, elegant, and logical production,
which did honor to the south and to the
occasion.
The Association was decidedly opposed
to fooling with the Legislature of Texas.
1t talked like it had no favors TO ask and
none to give.
All the editors voted Joe Browns NAM
moth establishment the biggest thing in
Texas.
The reception and entertainment COM
mittees were untiring in their kindness to
the scribes.
The hop rendered by THE GAZETTE was
Ane exhibition of the beauty and chival-
~ eotS the Fort and the newspaper boys
euI0yed It,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.

San Antonio Times: The citizens Of
Fort Worth entertained noblY, but the
editors say that for quiet, unbounded
hospitality, and attention 10 every wish
OF guests, San Antonio is unsurpassed in
every particular.
The editors who have been tearing
away at each others throats on prohibi-
ton and other subjects were mild as q
May morning during the association.
Newspaper men can hit harder and for
give quicker than any other people in the
world
The Association made admirable choice
for its literary exercises ct next meeting.
Colonel Carey W. Styles of the Bosque
Citizen is orator, Mr.. Yantis of the Wills
Rose Hartwicke Thorpe of San Antonio
is poet.
The newspaper men OF Fort Worth laid
themselves out to serve their brethren of
the press, and the editors carried away
pleasant remembrance of the fraternity
in the "Chicag0 of Texas"
1t is impossible for Fort Worth man
to make 8 public speech without deliver
ing psnegyric on his town, and, the fact
is, he cannot be blamed for his boasts.
anyone who looks around in the Panther
City must conclude that there is vim and
enterprise there which are next TO bust
ness cyclone.
The association was we'll attended, or
DERBY, attentive to business, and not 8
word was spoken to mar the harmony of
lis sessions. All this speaks volumes for
it's members.
When the association honored Colonel
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03

Fort Worth has secured some nOtOTiety
as a wholesale town, which is growing
rapidly. The second largest building in
the United States, used as a grocery
house is that of Joseph IL. Brown, of
this city, who occupies 100000 square
feet of floor space, and has facilities for
loading and unloading ten cars at one
time Connected with this institution
are large manufactures Of goods in the
grocery line. There areEseveraI large
mills, planning mills, cloth, harness,
furniture and other manufactures in the
city, and the iron industry has grown
into s vast concern. Recently several
members of the Commercial Cub, social
organization, subscribed $4,000 in less
than an hour to Increase the facilities of
the foundry, and the result is that a
mammoth building is being erected and
the plant is being quGdrupled.
The country tributary to Fort Worth is
especially good, and has kept pace with
the growth of the city. The population
of this territory in 1880 was 892 1856, and
the assessed valuation 1892 ,55S, 722; the
mileage of railways, $40; the value of
sheep, S2,l3O,648, and OF horses and
mules, SG76 ,64S. The estimated yield of
COIIOu lOI 1901 10 COD, ODU UhlGHs IL 10
believed that at least 40, 900 bales will be
shipped from the Fort Worth station
alone.
One of the most important necesssries
in Texas is good water, and it is difficult
to secure it in some portions OF the state
in sufficient quantities Fort Worth is
peculiarly blessed in this respect, being
supplied with soft artesian water from
$50 wells, aided by excellent water
works. For fire purposes the Trinity
river is used, and this stream, which en-
circles the city in the form Of horse
shoe, provides excellent and ample drain
age. The artesian water is remarkably
pure and clear, and delightful to drink,
and in fact, for all purposes.
The buildings in Fort Worth would be
a credit to any city, beng substantial,
handsome and spacious. The stocks in
the stores are large, and prices reason
able. With her many railroads., the
chances are that she will shortly outstrip
all rivals and become the largest and
most important city in Northern Texas.
Her people are progressive and earnest
friends of the city. Many of these are
young men, and among these are TriCe &
Burbridge, real estate and loan brokers,
and Mr.. T. J. Powell, to whom l was
placed under special obligations for at
tention and assistance.
The advent of the Atchison system into
Texas was great benefit to Fort Worth,
and greater benefits than those obtained
are TO be enjoyed. The company has
secured en- eligible and spacious site for
shops, which are 10 be erected at once,
and will be of considerable size and i'm
portance. The generous reception of the
road by the citizens has made g warm
place for the city in the management.
C.C.B.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
HE ESCAPED IN BON.
Convict Stewards Ingenious Way OF Get
ting Out Of Sing Sing.
New York SIM

Henry Stewart, VINO was sentenced IN
this city TO ten years Imprisonment on
November &c, 1885, fer robbery, escaped
from Sing Sing yesterday. He was en-
ployed in the laundry, and it is coniec-
tured that while the shirts were being
packed for shipment he secr5ted himself
in one Of the packing cases, where he re-
manned until after the case had been
lifted into railroad car and the
car closed. One of the cases was empty
and had been opened by means of small
saw and probably chisel. His escape
from the car occurred not far from Sing
Sing. a suit of prison clothes which
were recognized as those that Stewart
wore were found in the car, but no trace
of the fugitive has yet been discovered.
He must have secured suit of citizens
clothes from some source, and some of
those engaged in transferring the cases
from the laundry must have been in
league with him. The usual reward of
$50 has been offered, and the people liv-
ing in the villages along the Hudson river
are keeping sHarp lookout for him.
The Sing Sing prison laundry stands
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
ErsTsto FOrf,lne, in Ancient Times

British Paper.
Cr1sus possessed in landed property
fortune equal to 81, 100000, besides 8
large sum of money, slaves and furniture.
The philosopher Seneca had fortune
Of e., 100000
Lentulus, the sooth3ayer had fortune
Of E3, 900.
Tiberius, ct mis- death, E23. 500, 900,
which Caliguls spent in less than ten
months.
Caesar, before he entered upon any
office, owed 2,995,OOO.
Antony owed 100000 at the ides of
March, paid it before the kalends of April,
and squandered eI47 200, 900 OF the pub
lie money.
Apicius expended in debsuchery $780,
600.
Cleopatra, at an entertainment, gave
Antony, dissolved in vinegar, who swal-
lowed 1t, q pearl worth $4,000.
Esopus paid for single dish $4,000.
Caligula spent for one supper $50, 900.
Heliogabalus spent for one meal &C.,
900.
Luculus usually paid 100000 for re
past.
Messala gave f4OO,O 200 for the house of
Antony.